Ludwig Richter (1803 - 1884)

Ludwig Richter

Adrian Ludwig Richter was a German Romanticist and Biedermeier painter.

Ludwig Richter studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Art. His travels, especially to Italy, played an important role in the further development of his talent, during which Richter was introduced to the Nazarenes and Joseph Anton Koch. After his return to Germany, the artist works as a draftsman at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, then teaches landscape painting at the Dresden Academy. 

Since the late 1830s Richter is increasingly active as an illustrator (including for publications of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm). Having made about 3,000 woodcuts for 150 works of art, Richter became one of the most popular artists in Germany. At the same time, 'large format painting' seems to recede into the background for him. A developed eye disease, which made the artist almost blind, forced him to leave painting in 1873.